Kenan Thompson Quotes
I'm very happy here at 'SNL.' I've never been in a hurry to leave because it's such a special place. It's never the same when you leave and come back.
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The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
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People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.
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I love New York. Love it.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
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The place where I grew up is the center of surfing. Everyone who grows up on the North Shore surfs, and from October to March, you have the best waves in the world within a 5- to 7-mile stretch. I grew up in the center of these incredible sunsets and all these incredible waves. And then we have the Triple Crown of Surfing.
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A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'
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Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else.
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The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
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Never change the person that you are just to fit in. You'll find your true friends that like you for you, and if you are happy with doing things that you genuinely enjoy, it shouldn't matter what other people think.
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I'm very happy here at 'SNL.' I've never been in a hurry to leave because it's such a special place. It's never the same when you leave and come back.
